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Escletxa dels Bancarrassos

Escletxa dels Bancarrassos

Coveta a la zona de les Costasses (Olesa de Bonesvalls)

Olesa de Bonesvalls • Alt Penedès8m1m

Small cave in the Costasses area (Olesa de Bonesvalls), a short gallery of 1.20 x 1 m with smooth walls and a chaotic end of large blocks.

Characteristics

Location

Driving along the road that links Vallirana and Olesa de Bonesvalls past the housing developments, when these end and after the Avenc de la Cuneta take the last street on the right (Carrer del Serral Llarg) and climb almost to the upper area. Before a sharp right-hand bend, the Carrer de Taubadella comes out on the left, which you follow to the end into a small round square. From here we continue on foot along a faint path, without losing height, until reaching a sparse ridge where we change slope and scattered cairns help us find the cave.

Mapa

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Bancarrassos, Escletxa dels

    Elevation: 447 m

    41.361579, 1.875491
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 405945 4579507
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Photos

Escletxa dels Bancarrassos - Photo, Olesa de Bonesvalls, Alt PenedèsView image
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Description

Morphology

Short regular gallery of 1.20 x 1 m with smooth walls. Chaotic end of large blocks resulting from the displacement of the rock and the origin of the cavity.

Speleothems

Slight concretion forms.

History

It appears on the ICGC map, probably from a mention that appears on the Cultural Heritage page of the Diputació de Barcelona and provided by members of the Grup de Recerca Olesa Rural who found it around the year 2005 approximately.

Toponymy: We think the word bancarrassos is a metathesis of barrancassos.

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Bibliography

  • Totes les dades, topografia i fotografies han estat facilitades per Martí Romero (ERE-CEC) (maig 2021).

Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/